With Obama continuing to press Romney to release his tax returns, the speculation about what’s in them is running rampant. Maybe it’s something that’s basically reasonable if you’re a business person but tough to explain when we hold you to a higher standard trying to become leader of the free world. Maybe it’s more tax shelters. Maybe there’s evidence of fraud, or something else horrible.
Obviously, my speculation is as much as anyone else’s just speculation. But I think it probably leans to the worse side of the equation. In fact, think of the worst thing you can that might be in those taxes he refuses to release. Mitt Romney would rather you have that in your mind than the knowable, actual truth. Seems like if everything was fine, or if it was just a bit tough to explain, he’d rather have you know the truth.
I’m going with the theory that everything in high-finance comes down to Russian hookers and blow in the end.
Romney’s problem is simple ….
‘splaining how he can make 20- 50% returns on investments in a BLIND trust (as appear to be the case in his IRA) would mean also explaining why some bozo with a much smaller amount to invest can not do the same.
I had a rich friend who never paid taxes. He set up his business so that there was clash flow and capital accretion but no bet income. This is not hard to do if you are in Romney’s class.
Poor fool me, all I have earned is a salary. I once, for a short time, did get corporate style pay .. VERY cool. Basically designed so there were no taxes.
Because if Obummer discussed the economy and Fast and Furious and No Jobs Plan and almost $6 Trillion in new debt and the recession ending in October 2009 he’d have a great reerection platform for another 4 years.
4. How true!
@3 This is all you need to know about the economy.
http://tinyurl.com/7b9yyzn
This is all you need to know about foreign policy.
http://tinyurl.com/5wm3jgp
This is all you need to know about deficits.
http://tinyurl.com/7kkuh3w
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And this is all you need to know about government debt:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=8Ss
What the economy needs right now is some serious government spending. There is little or no inflation, so government debt is not a problem at all. With the rest of the world seeing the dollar as the safest currency we’ve got much more leeway than other countries to do this kind of thing.
Unfortunately Republicans won’t allow that to happen. They’re deficit hawks – but only when they’re not actually running things. When they ARE running things, they spend like drunken sailors.
Seriously, if the Republicans think they can beat Pres. Obama based on his record, then they should run against Pres. Obama and not this fictional Barak X:
Misogynist Bill Maher? That’s your informational “source”?
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Sorry, don’t do tiny urls Roger DUMB Wabbit!
Yes, here is government debt!
Or you can use this one too…
Notice how the graphs’ slope wildly takes off.
Keep up the tax return drumbeat. In the meantime, here is what is comin’ back at ya!
OUCH!!
Obama’s ideology got the best of him and Obama revealed his truest feelings. What a chump.
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What is wrong with you people? And by ‘you people’ I mean liars and Republicans, though I confess the redundancy.
An analysis of the ad you (without link or attribution) trumpet so enthusiastically:
Again, what is wrong with you people? Did you never learn that dishonesty was wrong?
Romney is in panic mode over this – and that’s a good thing. Let’s have more Sununu out there saying Obama doesn’t know how to be an American – and maybe some more ‘creative’ splicing – like this – yeah! that’s the ticket!
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The FoxNoise lie machine geared right up and had Hannity and van Sustern and, of course, luffa boy O’Rielly having fainting spells getting the rubes (like ev above) worked into a lather over the latest outrage of the KenyanIndonesianBLACK guy who wants your guns and your sister. (Notice the ‘creative’ chyrons)
Moreover, the Washington Post reiterates the label ‘Deceptive‘ in connection with Romney.
The hits go on and on….
Question: Is Willard genetically incapable of telling the truth?
David Horsey, writing from his new position at the L.A. Times, gives what is probably the most respectful explanation of Romney that can be given. He says that it’s not just the tax returns, the problem is that Romney has been hiding from any position which might be used against him, and has been doing so for years. The question is, what kind of President would he be? What values, other than Mormanisma and making money, propel him?
After reviewing Romney’s record of flip-flops on every conceivable isssue, starting from when he first ran for governor in Massachusets, Horsey concluded that Romeny’s sole controlling motivation is: to achieve the presidency, thus fulfilling an ambition first adopted by his father. Everything else is collateral, adjustable, and easily discarded.
Ann Romney, appearing on Good Morning America, said that Romney had released “everyting that you people need” (quoted from memory), and that everyone should just get off Romeny’s back on this issue.
Sounds like Ann Romney is a bit spoiled, and has the same disdain for the lower classes that the lady in the gold Range Rover had when she was quoted waiting for admission into a Romney fund raiser.
How dare the “help” question us?!!! They are incapable of understanding things as complicated as our finances, so there is no reason to reveal any more than they absolutely “need to know” (as determined entirely by us). Now get back to work, peasants, the king is busy preparing for his coronation!